Multi-Step Agentic AI Coding
Turn impossible one-shot coding tasks into achievable multi-step workflows with intelligent task decomposition for Claude Code
$ pip install cc_atoms
Why cc_atoms?
🧠 AI Task Analysis
Automatically analyzes task complexity and determines optimal strategy - simple tasks run fast, complex ones get decomposed.
🔀 Task Decomposition
Breaks complex tasks into manageable sub-atoms: Analyze → Design → Implement → Test → Document.
🔄 Persistent Context
Unlike other tools, maintains full conversation history across iterations via Claude's -c flag.
👥 Meta-Agents
Built-in Critic and Verifier agents review code and actually run tests before marking complete.
🚦 Quality Gates
Detects TODO, FIXME, and other red flags - continues iterating until code is truly complete.
📚 Semantic Memory
Queries your knowledge base to inject relevant context into the system prompt.
How It Compares
| Feature | cc_atoms | gpt-engineer | Aider | Cursor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Multi-step decomposition | ✓ AI-powered | ✗ Manual | ✗ | ✗ |
| Persistent context | ✓ Full history | ✗ Fresh each time | ✓ | ✓ |
| Task complexity analysis | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Meta-agent review | ✓ Critic + Verifier | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Quality gates | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
| Semantic memory | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ |
Simple to Use
Terminal
# Run with inline prompt
$ atom "Create a REST API with auth and tests"
# Output:
Complexity: complex
Estimated iterations: 8
Meta-agents: ['critic', 'verifier']
Decomposing into 5 sub-atoms...
--- Sub-atom 1/5: Analyze requirements ---
--- Sub-atom 2/5: Design implementation ---
--- Sub-atom 3/5: Write core code ---
--- Sub-atom 4/5: Run tests ---
--- Sub-atom 5/5: Document ---
✓ Complete after 5 iterations (287.3s)
Architecture
User Prompt
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 1: Task Analysis │
│ - Complexity detection │
│ - Memory query generation │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 2: Task Decomposition │
│ - Task-specific steps │
│ - Sub-atom spawning │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 3: Main Execution Loop │
│ - Persistent conversation │
│ - Iterative refinement │
└─────────────────────────────────┘
│
▼
┌─────────────────────────────────┐
│ Phase 4: Quality Gates │
│ - Meta-agent review │
│ - Red flag detection │
└─────────────────────────────────┘